On Tue, 15 Apr 2014 04:33:24 -0400, Terry Reedy wrote: > On 4/15/2014 2:08 AM, Ben Finney wrote: >> Terry Reedy <tjre...@udel.edu> writes: >> >>> The 'mistake' is your OS, whatever it is, not providing 3.3. It is >>> already so old that it is off bugfix maintenance. Any decent system >>> should have 3.4 available now. >> >> I think you mean “… should have Python 3.3 available now”, yes? > > ??? why would you think that??? My installed 3.4.0 for Windows is dated > March 16.
Was it provided by Microsoft as part of the OS? Terry, while enthusiasm for the latest and greatest version of Python is a good thing, stability is also a good thing. Not everyone has the luxury of being able to jump on the upgrade treadmill and stay on it. If I recall correctly, Python 2.6 has just received its last security update from Python, but it will continue to receive them from Red Hat for a few more years. (Python 2.4 is still receiving security updates from Red Hat, and 2.7 will be receiving them until 2024.) That stability is very valuable to some people -- that's why people use (e.g.) Debian, with its promises of multi-year stability, instead of Ubuntu, which goes through major version changes three times a week (or so sometimes it seems...) That failure to support 3.4 in the OS-provided system is not a mistake, it is a feature. -- Steven -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
